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WMO
WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (WMO)
Weather, climate and water know no political boundaries. To promote
international cooperation in these areas, the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) coordinates the activities of the National
Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) of its 188 Members.
Every day, meteorologists and hydrologists are working around the clock,
all year round, to protect and provide vital information. Their early
and reliable warnings of the occurrence of severe weather, air quality
and climate events allow decision-makers, communities and individuals to
be better prepared. They help save life and property, protect resources
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CEA, a public technological research organization
The CEA, a prominent player in research, development and innovation, is active in three main areas: energy, healthcare and information technology and defense and security. Excellence in fundamental research underpins its activities.
With its 15,332 researchers and collaborators with internationally recognized expertise, the CEA is regarded by policymakers as a vital source of new ideas and expertise. With nine centers throughout France, the CEA is well integrated regionally and enjoys solid partnerships with other research organizations.
A recognized expert in its specialist fields, the CEA is very active in the European Research Area and is constantly broadening its international involvement.
www.cea.fr
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CANON CPS
Canon Professional Services is an exclusive Pan European membership program created to support professional photographers owning Canon professional equipment for use in their daily work.
Over the past years, our CPS teams across Europe have been busy supporting professional photographers at major international events. CPN has been born out of listening to you at these and other events – to your needs, your wishes and your passion for photography.
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CANON CPN
Canon Professional Network, Canon Europe’s new professional photographic website, aims to be a source of inspiration, education and motivation for the professional photographer and the aspiring photographic enthusiast.
www.canon-europe.com/cpn
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FRANCE GEOTHERMIE
FRANCE GEOTHERMIE is one of the French market leaders in geothermal and aerothermal heat pump systems. Our heat pumps use inexhaustible and free energy which is offered by nature to bring us comfort and reduction of heating’s cost. The control of the natural resources and the respect of the environment are first priorities for FRANCE GEOTHERMIE.
www.france-geothermie.com
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OSSABOIS
Known as the french leader in wood construction, Ossabois provides
timber frame systems to the domestic (individual and social housing)
and commercial market (tourism residences and offices). Ossabois's
first vocation is to promote the advantages of this natural material,
that's why the firm supports a lot of wood industries and is involved
in the first French realisation of passive houses. Pursuant to the
objectives set forth in the « Environmental Grenelle », Ossabois
maintains a commitment to highlighting the energy efficiencies and
leads us modular systems for pollution reduction, from the very
beginning of the construction process. Thus, Ossabois embodies and
praises the choice of a friendly sustainable housing, faithful to its
original values.
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CITY OF PONT DE CLAIX
Pont de Claix owes its name to the XVIth century bridge, a historical monument which crosses the river Drac that flows alongside the town. It is located at a crossroads of routes leading through the Alps to the Mediterranean.
Founded in 1973 under the impetus of Paul Breton, a papermaking industrialist, Pont de Claix is bordered by countryside and woodland to the east and west.
The perfectly straight, 8 km long avenue that starts from the river Isère in Grenoble and ends in Pont de Claix is lined with four rows of trees.
Today, the economic fabric of the town consists of about forty major industries and twenty smaller-scale businesses.
Some of the largest firms are located in the chemical industrial area, which covers one third of the municipal territory, while Becton Dickinson, world leader in the syringe manufacture, also has a major facility in Pont de Claix.
The town boasts numerous sports and leisure facilities including the Flottibulle water park and a covered area for playing boules, as well as the Amphithéâtre auditorium.
Disused since 1960, the old water tower acts as a familiar landmark for the majority of the local inhabitants. A former flour mill, still containing its original machinery made of steel and wood, is now home to the music school and also includes a room where artists, sculptors and photographers hold an annual exhibition of their works. The paper making factory from which the town stemmed now stands empty and derelict. It has been acquired by the municipality and its new use will soon be unveiled. |
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CITY OF GIERES
Partie intégrante de l'agglomération grenobloise, Gières s'étend sur la rive gauche de l'Isère au début de la vallée du Grésivaudan, au pied des premiers contreforts de la chaîne de Belledonne. Un dixième de sa surface est occupé par le Domaine universitaire de Grenoble, qui accueille entre autres trois facultés, un Institut national polytechnique et un établissement du CNRS. La ville compte 6 262 habitants, près de 300 commerces et entreprises et une activité agricole toute entière tournée vers le maraîchage, qui produit une salade sur trois vendue dans l'agglomération.
www.mairie-gieres.fr |
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ALLIBERT MONTAGNES ET DESERTS
Because we live our job as a passion, we arrange ramblings, trekkings and mountaineering trips from the Alps to the Sahara desert, from the Andes to the Himalaya mountain range. Nowadays, we have more than 600 trips in 90 countries. Ever since we opened our agency in 1975, we have been involved in sustainable tourism and we intend to raise our clients’s awareness of the necessity to preserve our nature throughout the world. Therefore, we support the Our Polar Heritage project.
www.allibert-trekking.com |
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GRAND NORD GRAND LARGE
All starts in 1982 by the mean of one hikking expedition in southern Greenland. The formula, which is rustic, gains a sharp success. The demand increases, and snowballs effect : hiking, cross country ski, sea kayak expeditions follow one another in the Far North. Year after year, our pallet of voyages diversifies: to the "expedition style" voyages of the beginning, are added softer activities. Thus appear more classical voyages and cruises. But all have the discovery of the Arctic and Antarctic areas in common.
Today, with a catalogue of more than 300 polar voyages, GRAND NORD acts to be the specialist in the Arctic and Antarctic areas.
But all our voyages always try to preserve this so fragile nature under these latitudes, "leaving behind us only traces of step in snow".
www.gngl.com |
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FROILABO
For nearly one century, FROILABO has been a Manufacturer of Laboratory Equipment and offered you a complete range of products intended to prepare and preserve your samples.
The innovating Bio-memory Concept was developed by our engineers and guarantees incomparable reliability and performance in the preservation of your biological samples. Our products ranges comply to applications from -196 °C to +250 °C.
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MUSEE DES ARTS ET METIERS
The Musée des arts et métiers is the French Science and Technique museum. Recently completely renovated after the decision of the State (1993-2000), it reopened to the public for March 21, 2000. It houses a collection over 80.000 intriguing objects of national heritage dating from ancient times to the present and 20.000 historical drawings.
Over 5500 m² and on three floors, the permanent exhibit takes visitors on a voyage through the history of crafts about seven themes : scientific instruments, materials, construction, communication, energy, mechanics and transport. In this collection, a number of very fine pieces account for the renown of the Musée des arts et métiers : Scott’s steam machine, Foucault’s pendulum, Breguet’s plane, the model of the engine of the Ariane Rocket, Pascaline Blaise Pascal’s calculator…
Since 2003, the Musée des arts et métiers has been in charge of the preservation and enhancement of the national scientific and technical present-day heritage.
The Museum welcomes more than 230 000 visitors each year, and many schools.
Many events, temporary exhibitions, regular visits, lectures and debates, demonstrations and activities for children are organized.
The reserve collection located in a big building north of Paris is one of the best-equipped ones in France and is opened to the public for some events.
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CNAM
Established in 1794, The Musée des arts et métiers (museum of Arts and Crafts, museum of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris’ School of Engineering) in the former priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs, thus becoming a showpiece of the main tools of scientific research and bearing witness to mankind’s ingenuity.
www.cnam.fr |
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VAGABOND
Vagabond is an expedition yacht designed to sail in icy waters. Since 2000, she is a unique support of this type, a real floating base camp for scientists (collaboration with IPEV), adventurers or artists fond of polar regions.
VAGABOND is at present a dedicated base camp for DAMOCLES, which main objective is to study Arctic Ocean sea ice and its future. France Pinczon du Sel and Eric Brossier bring their polar yacht and their experience to work with scientists for 4 years, on the East Coast of Spitsbergen (2004-2008). In October 2006, just before the beginning of the International Polar Year, in collaboration with the French Polar Institute IPEV, Vagabond started her third wintering at polar bear land.
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